Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-01
A PHOTOGRAPH FAD.
Pictures of Feminine Hands and Feet

Pictures of Feminine Hands and Feet.
.'My Hand Foot Album is the dainty
inscription on the cover of small but
highly priced volume belonging to
young lady living in the Mission saws
The San Francisco Chronicle. The
book is bound in morocco, and was
evidently intended by its maker as an
album for small card photographs of
the regulation portrait order. The
novel use TO which it is now put has
made of the little volume one of the
oldest of curios. In nearly everyone
of the spaces prepared for portraits is
a photograph of a feminine hand or
foot.
Allow did / get this collection?
Well, if you won't write anything
ridiculing it I'll tell you"
That is what the owner of the album
said to reporter yesterday.
~ on see" she went on, as she turned
the leaves of the interesting volume,
''some of the girls in this part of the
town with whom | am acquainted hit
upon the idea of having their hands
photographed. believe the first one
wanted to perpetuate the taper finger
on which she had an engagement ring
placed. The picture was taken in a
little circle, with star points all around,
and showed nothing but the hand and
a portion of the wrist. Here it is, you
see."
A remarkable pretty hand, white
and dimpled like baby's, was shown.
~ es that was the first, | believe.
The girl showed it around among a
few OF her most intimate friends. of
whom | am one, and they all thought
the picture such cute one that they
Immediately made up their minds to
have something after the same style
taken of their own hands OF course
they all don't have engagement rings
on, but some of them made believe by
using other rings, and others mad their
hands taken plain, as you will see,
without any ring at all. :"
"But about these feetp" asked Che
reporter, as slippered and booted
extremities were shown in passing.
well" said the owner OF the album,
just the least bit shyiy. '.you know
when girls get started Oh such notions
as these they always go from one thing
to another. At first they thought it
would be awful to follow out such a
suggestion, but finally very brave
possessor of a pair of No. Us said she
wasn't afraid and if the other girls
would g with her to the gallery she
would sit for foot photograph. So
they went, and the result was that
the whole party Except one girl, who
wore No. $50 had their feet taken.
You can see them here in all positions
and styles
In nearly every lease there waes a.
fringe of dress skirt above the shoe or
slipper, but in one or two instances
this was lacking. However, nothing
betokening immodesty could be OBJ
served. There were high, arched in
steps and low, broad toes and narrow,
but nearly all wore common-sense low
heels, as the average Mission girl
knows that running to catch car with
a pencil like heel under her is any
thing but nice, and there is a good
deal of car-catching done in the
Mission.
The young lady was in the act of
turning the last leaf of the album,
when she caught herself, so TO speak,
and throwing it back Held it down
securely with her thumb. This aroused
the reporters curiosity.
Something still more interestingly
Let's see it"
.sOh, no. 1t isn't to be seen. It
isn't nice, and the album was whisked
away to the mantel, while the subject
was changed. A few minutes later the
young lady was called from the room
for moment, and the reporter did
not hesitate to take advantage of heF
absence by turning to the mantel and
opening the album at the forbidden
page.
What he saw there was nothing
more or less than another pretty
female foot, but, unlike the rest, this
one was not booted or hosed.
When the unsuspecting girl re-
entered the room she said hers was
not the only album of the kind recent
ly started in the city. Indeed, it was
quite rage to have collection OF
pictures of the kind. They are all
taken in the ''gem" shape and placed
in albums made for that size OF
pictures.